Saint Bernadine Realino
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- Also known as
- Apostle of Lecce
- Memorial
- 2 July
- Profile
- Italian nobility.
Studied law and medicine at Bologna, receiving a law degree in 1556.
Mayor of Felizzano, Italy.
Judge.
Chief tax collector in Alesandria, Italy.
Mayor of Cassine, Italy.
Mayor of Castelleone, Italy.
Superintendant of the fiefs of the marquis of Naples.
Following a retreat, he became a Jesuit in 1564, priest in 1567.
Novice master in Naples, and then was sent to found a college in Lecce, a small city in the south of Italy.
He quickly became the most loved man in Lecce due to his concern and charity.
He made himself appear the receiver rather than the giver, and the poor and galley slaves were his special concern.
One of the more interesting miracles attributed to him concerned his small pitcher of wine which was never empty until everyone present had had enough.
On his death bed, the city's magistrates formally requested that in the next life he take the city under his patronage.
Unable to speak, he nodded, and died soon after, whispering the names of Jesus and Mary.
- Born
- 1530
- Died
- 1616 of natural causes
- Canonized
- 1947 by Pope Pius XII
- Patronage
- Lecce Italy
- Images
- Gallery of images of Saint Bernadine
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